COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- One local high school band is marching through the neighborhoods of Colorado Springs. The group spent nearly 12 hours marching up and down the streets near Palmer High School Friday.
The marchathon is a fundraiser for the school marching band. It’s like a scene out of the Music Man as a marching band comes down a quiet tree lined street near Memorial Hospital.
Its the Palmer High School marching band,
“The parents and friends and everybody, the kids go out and get sponsorships from them and they try and march eight to 10 to 12 hours," Palmer High School Director of Bands Dale Crockett said.
Twelve hours of marching and playing in 90 degree heat with just a short break for lunch and few water breaks.
"Its fantastic. We get a whole bunch of practice on the marching technique that we need working on the music we worked on the field show this morning," drum major Andrew Theobald said.
The band is hoping to raise $6,000 with just one day of marching.
"The money goes back into the band fund to purchase instruments fix instruments," Crockett said.
The people who live in the area didn't seem to mind the drums and music passing right in front of their homes.
"'I’m from Kansas City and did marching band all through high school, so it was kind of fun to see them," neighbor Laurel Short said.
They even said the band is getting better as the day goes on.
"I spent all four years of high school in a marching band, Short said. "I was a drum major for two years, and its my best memories from high school, so I fully support any local marching band that needing to raise money."
The band started at 7:30 a.m., and just before 5 p.m. the band lined up one last time and marched more than a mile back to Palmer High School.
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